Join us for a talk by Google engineers that have been working on the new App Engine features, and learn how you can get started using Google App Engine for your Java web apps.

Google Spreadsheets is more than just a web version of Microsoft Excel - it also has a full read/write Google data (AtomPUB) API, and support for Google Visualization API Gadgets. This talk will introduce both of these ways of enhancing the functionality of spreadsheets - from the simple to the sophisticated.

The codelab will involve making a spreadsheets-based map, and a spreadsheets-powered command-line database.

Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications. The talk will give an overview of the App Engine architecture from a developer's perspective, followed by a live demonstration.

Google Maps API for Flash

Feb. 3rd @ 5:30pm - 7pm,

We'll go over what the new Maps API for Flash can do, and show how to easily integrate it with other libraries for parsing XML/GeoRSS/KML/JSON. We'll also show how to use it with the HTTP version of the Google AJAX libraries. The talk will include an introduction to ActionScript3 (like JS but better!), Flex development, and Flex controls.

The codelab will be making a map that uses all of the features of the API, and the free Flex SDK.